re: #374 Obdicut

Well, with one small modification; there are lots of spending where the cost down the road is definite, is inevitable. There are people who will never use their health care. But if we cut the number of public defenders down, then the number of cases turned over to a new trial inevitably will go up— and that represents a real and actual cost.

This is just as true for private businesses as it is for public ones. I’ve experienced it a ton of times myself. Refusing to put money into an early QA process means the schedule stretching out at the end as multiple late fixes are needed, which winds up costing a hell of a lot more than the early QA time would have.

You also can’t inspect quality into a result. It’s the up front R&D that often doesn’t pay off all that wel (blind alleys etc) that results in lower long term costs because the final solution was the right one and required less maintenance, tweaking etc.